Lance Armstrong invited to come clean over drugs

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John Westerby

Last updated at 12:01AM, February 12 2014

Lance Armstrong was invited yesterday to reveal “all the truth” about his use of performance-enhancing drugs as cycling’s independent commission launched its investigation. Brian Cookson, the president of the UCI, the governing body, urged everyone with knowledge of doping in the sport to provide evidence to the Cycling Independent Reform Commission, offering the possibility of reduced sanctions to offenders who confess in the next year.

If “people with key information” do not respond to the invitation to give evidence, the commission will seek their co-operation. Along with Armstrong, this is also likely to include Hein Verbruggen and Pat McQuaid, the